Archive for the ‘Trelowarren history’ Category
No Greenwash here – the Great Office Restoration
Posted on by Lets celebrate where it began – with the Trelowarren Great Office Restoration. This project won awards because back in 2004 we decided that the conversion of the building should reflect our belief in sustainability and protecting our environment. The Great office is listed Grade 2* and it is in the curtilage of a Grade 1 […]
All for the Want of a Nail
Posted on by All for the Want of a Nail For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe the horse was lost. For want of a horse the rider was lost. For want of a rider the battle was lost. For want of a battle the kingdom was lost. And all for […]
The Sofa – Victoria’s Blog
Posted on by The Sofa Septimus: ( to Thomasina) We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again […]
Victoria’s blog – Christmas at Sea
Posted on by Christmas at Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson https://poets.org/poem/christmas-sea A poem at Christmas needs to have a good narrative drive and not be too full of itself as a poem. Epiphany is the time for the tragedy of TS Eliot’s The Journey of the Magi, but on Christmas Day I think Robert Louis Stevenson’s poem, full […]
Difficult Questions for 2020 – Victoria’s blog – Jan 2020
Posted on by In the 1960s a theoretical statistician, hence someone with theoretically no skin in the game, suggested that if a large % of an available population give an answer to a simple question, the answer they give, however unlikely it seems to another group, is probably correct. The available population in our garden is two. Should […]
Water outside – Water inside – December blog by Victoria Vyvyan
Posted on by We’ve had a wet autumn. The rain has come from all of the cardinal points. It has drifted sideways in veils; it has poured down vertically in sheets; it has battered the windows so hard that some just gave up and blew out; it has come in gusts and flurries making the scaffolding groan like […]
Keep the home fires burning – November blog by Victoria Vyvyan
Posted on by At Trelowarren we keep the home fires burning All that needs to be said about bonfires in the Pleasure Gardens at Trelowarren was said by C.C. Vyvyan in The Old Place. So in homage to Great Aunt Clara … Think Armada, think Napoleon; think Jubilee, Coronation, and Armistice; think Shadrach Misach and Abednego and the […]